Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, April 12, 1913 L I i ..., v .. ., : ... :,.,.. . .., ..... ~v............ _ . ,,..,.... :: Ellsberg testifies on '63 diplomacy crisis NOW THE MOVIE THAT ASKS THE QUESTION: "Must Co-Eotus Always Be Interruptus?" IS HERE LOS ANGELES (Reuter) - Pentagon Papers trial defend- ant Dr. Daniel Ellsberg said on the witness stand yesterday that a crisis over the manufacturing of the Skybolt Missile in 1963 led to a near rupture of relations be- tween the United States and Bri- tain. Ellsberg, describing the top- secret work he did for the U. S. government as he began the sec- ond day of his testimony, said he was called in by a Special As- sistant to President Kennedy to make a report on the Skybolt crisis. "President Kennedy was en- tirely surprised (by the crisis)," Ellsberg testified. Ellsberg is standing trial on charges of espionage, conspir- acy and theft for leaking the top-secret Pentagon Papers on I the Vietnam War which burst into world headlines in 1971. But he has not yet reached in his testimony his association with the preparation of the Pen- tagon Papers, dealing so far on- ly with work he did for earlier crises - like the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Berlin Blockade Crisis. On the crisis over the air-de- livered Skybolt Missile Ellsberg said: "The President had not ex- pected it to cause any trouble." He said Britain had expected to be given a large part in manu- facturing the missile because it was to be used to equip a major section of Britain's strategic sources. "Therefore, when we canceled production of the missiles, Bri- tain's Prime Minister MacMil- lan reacted with very great an- ger and a political crisis erupted in Britain." 3- 4 Student strike? These students aren't protesting anything. Or rather, they're protesting nothing. They were partici- pants in a project for their Interpretative Communcations Class at Western Michigan University which called for them to assume the role of someone other than themselves. RUSSIANS PAY $120 EACH: Jeans boom on black market Ellsberg MOSCOW (Reuter) - Genuine American jeans are the hottest line now being peddled in the sec- ond-hand markets of Soviet cities despite police action to stamp out their sale. They sell for a standard black market price of 100 roublesI (about 120 dollars) a pair in the used clothing markets of towns like Odessa, Baku, Lvov, Moscowa and Leningrad. This represents aI profit of more than 1,000 per cent which is split up between the "im- porter," often a sailor - and the black market hawker. Ownership of a pair of Ameri- can jeans brings its own prob- lems - chief among them a high risk of loss. A young Frenchman in Moscow who went to a city swimming pool dried off and went to re- trieve his clothes, only to find his, American jeans had disappeared. Fortunately,einstheir place, some- one had left a pair of tattered Rus-' sian pants. Muchthe same misadventure befell a young Russian student who, changed in his gymnasium fot a' workout and also discovered that 1 craze shows no signs of petering his jeans had exercised an over- out. In practically any school a whelming attraction for someone boy or girl who produces a packet, else. He had to wait until his of chewing gum can count on in- mother came by in a taxi with stant popularity. a spare pair of pants. Authorities frown on the exist- A recent teenage novelty is a ence of black market peddlers in pair of bell-bottom pants adorned city market places but have to around the waist, or at the bot- admit that it is virtually impos- tom, with jingling tinker bells- sible to stamp out entirely. or with zippers running down the Soviet industry has made great outside calf. strides in meeting consumer de- J e a n s are popular among mand but it still lacks the range, youngsters throughout the eastern quality and attractiveness of some bloc and the Polish state clothing western products. i ,, industry has tried to meet the de- mand by producing its own ver- sion. But only genuine American jeans will meet the standards of the Soviet market place. Bellbottoms are preferred over the regular and slim-cuts. If a lad in Moscow receivesthe wrong kind he is likely to spend the next 48 hours soaking his jeans in water, with stiff boards inside the bottom of the legs to try and achieve a modified bellbottom ef- fect. But almost anything foreign which is either of good quality or a "TONIGHT! 8:00 P.M." The University Players Proudly Present Aime Cesaire's "THE TRAGEDY OF KING C HRISTOPHE" (The black ex-slave and cook who became the King of Haiti) APRIL 11-14 TRUEBLOOD THEATRE (Frieze Building) Tickets: $3.00, $2.00 Time: 8:00 P.M. Trueblood Box-office open 12:30-8:00 (performance time) Box-office phone: 764-5387 Dept. of Speech Communication and Theatre I 611111 BILD) and the FUTURE WORLDS PROGRAM present A WEEKEND OF SCIENCE FICTION OPENING TONIGHT-April 12, with WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE A classic, The life of earth is threatened by a giant meteor. TOMORROW: METROPOLIS SATURDAY: FORBIDDEN PLANIRT SUNDAY: ALPHAVILL E MON DAY: T HE TIME MACH INE 7 and 9:05 Architecture Auditorium $1.00 I i- The MichigantDaily, edited and man- novelty - or both - sells well in kged by students at the University of the towns here. Michigan. News phone: 764-0562. Second lass postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich- Men's patent shoes also fetch up igan. '420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, t 2 olr n hr sased Michigan 48104. Published daily Tues- to 120 dollars and there is a steady day through Sunday morning Univer- demand for Japanese wrist watch- sity year. Subscription rates: $10 by es and multi-colored shirts. carrier (campus area); $11 local mall (in Mich. or Ohio); $13 non-local mail For the younger schoolboy who (other states and foreign). has not yet graduated into the Summer Session published Tuesday jeans class the great attraction of through Saturday morning. Subscrip- the market place is the chance to Lion rates: $5.50 by carrier (campus buy western chewig um. area) ; $6.50 local mail (in Mich. or bu wser heig gm Ohio); $7.50 non-local mail (othe, A stick of chewing gum sells for states and foreign). MENDELSSOHN THEATRE TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY NEW WORLD FILM CO-OP 150 kopecks (60 cents) and the GUITAR LESSONS Class or private instruction-all styles. Our studios also accommodate banjo, flute, piano, drums and Moog, Call : Ann Arbor Music Mart 9:30-9:00 MON.-SAT. Ci med iatrics Friday, the 13th Special WI LLARD 7 and 9:30 P.M. Nat. Sci. Auditorium ONLY75clickets on sale at 6 p.m. 769-4980 336 S. State St. this FRIDAY and SATURDAY! Jimmy Page of LED ZEPPELIN NEW WORLD MEDIA MARLON BRANDO as Stanley Kowalski VIVEN LEIGH as Blanche Dubois in TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' I I d "Comments cannot do justice to the substance this film. You must see it to appreciate it."- Times and artistry of -The New York :v «:f. . . . em I